Say Cheese!

It's Saturday night, Ryan is watching his taped DVR version of today's Masters, Ali is snoozing and I'm bored! Unfortunately, I have been bad about taking pictures of my little bff lately so I am going to strive to be a lot better - now that tax season is nearing an end and my 2nd trimester energy is alive and kicking! As I just looked through my camera, however, I did have 150+ pictures of Ryan's trip to the Master's on Wednesday - but I did not find them half as enjoyable as a cute shot of Ali. :) Unfortunately these two are all I had and they are not very good - just some random shots of Ali this past week hanging out around the house on a rainy day and saying cheese! This is her "cheese" smile. She is not supposed to have her pacifier (or as she calls it ever so cutely and full of love/admiration - "pappy") during the day - only to go night night - oops!

Sometimes I take things for granted and forget to thank the Lord for all of our blessings in life - b/c I feel we have been truly blessed with Ali and baby #2. I am bored and being the internerd I am I have been reading other people's blogs and hear sad stories (that make me cry of course) and it just makes me want to go run, wake up Ali and kiss her 200 times and tell her how much I love her and how grateful I am to have a healthy, hilarious, brilliant (etc, etc) little 1.5 year old girl in my life. God has been good to us. I can't wait until tomorrow so we can go to church and Ali can learn more about this gracious God! I can't imagine what it is going to be like to have two little ones that both fill my heart so completely this fall - Ali and her little sibling. I turn 28 next month and sometimes it is just crazy to me that at the ripe age of 28 I will be a mother of 1 with one on the way (and halfway here at that point - and, I will know what I'm having at that point! yippee!) - but, boy, do I feel lucky!!

I'm hoping to have a lot more pictures to share with yall (if anyone reads this! :)) very soon - maybe even tomorrow - but, I can't make any promises!! In the meantime, I will share one funny story of something Ali did the other day. Sometimes I will point at my belly and say "baby!" to Ali (even though I am barely showing) to try to teach Ali slowly about her little sibling she gets to play with coming this Fall. She'll say it back to me but I think it just goes in one ear and out the other. Last week, Ryan came back from a run with her shirt off (he gets really hot when he runs!) and I was in the kitchen with Ali, feeding her breakfast. We were just talking while she was eating (and, she, of course chimes in the whole time - she is a chatterbox of her own language!) and Ryan for some reason was playing with his belly - maybe talking about how he wanted to run it off?? It was funny b/c we didn't think Ali was paying attention and then all of a sudden she looked at him and screamed out very loudly "BABY!!!" and pointed at Ryan's belly! Then, immediately started dying laughing like she knew she was making a joke! Ryan and I were cracking up at our little comedian. I just hope she doesn't make that joke to someone else who may not appreciate it as much!! I may hold off on saying "baby" and pointing to my belly for a little while. :)